With her fourth collection, acclaimed short story writer Marian Thurm brings her darkly comic sense of humor to a memorable set of new characters-every one of whom is brought to vivid life under her sharply observant but always compassionate gaze. A divorcee is hit on by her philandering ex whose new wife is stricken with cancer. An untimely shattered knee complicates a man's decision to dump his fiancee. A grieving widow is burdened by her daughter's...